The National Standards Authority of Ireland is the first registrar in the world to receive accreditation to provide registration for the new EIA/ECCB-954 standard. The new standard specifies the technical requirements that manufactures must meet to ensure there are no hazardous substances in their products. There’s already legislation in several countries that would require the elimination of a specified list of hazardous substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, poly-brominated biphenyls and poly-brominated diphenyl ethers.

EIA/ECCB-954-registered organizations will have to document their production processes in a controlled and consistent manner, facilitate verification of compliance to applicable requirements and regulations, allow efficient and effective compliance checks, and harmonize compliance and enforcement methods.

“As a supervising inspectorate for the EICQ/ECCB, NSAI can meet the growing needs of our existing clients and expand its value-added services in today’s ever-changing market place,” says Chris Morrell, NSAI development manager.

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